The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-09
Orange County.
Bradford.


was started here. On the same evening the
second degree of Odd Fellowship was
worked by Champion Lodge of this place in
a manner to win the commentator of all.
60 The Orange Association of Congre-
gational Ministers met at this place Febru-
airy LIST. 80 John Hartwell had a sleigh
smashed by leaving horse without hitch
ing while at the south end near the carriage
shop last Saturday. - The presiding
elder of this district preached at the Metho-
dist church last Sunday, it being quarterly
meeting. 80 Four members of the Saliva
ton Army have been holding series of
meetings at the town hall the past week
with very fair success. -- Mrs. #. G.
Carmen and son have been visiting friends
here and they, with Mr.. Garmon start for
their new home in Omaha, Neb., to-day
Wednesday, 80 G. G. Doty has been on
the sick list the past week, but is gaining.
- A few persons went to see the wreck
at the scene of the railroad accident on the
Central Vermont road last Saturday. -
Mrs. II. b. Stevens is expected home from
Chicago this week.
Braintree.
TUESDAY morning of last week Jonathan
Sumner went to his barn, some distance
from the house, to feed his sheep. He
found fourteen killed, and as many more
badly mangled, by dogs. The CANNES have
been sent to the happy hunting-grounds.
80 School closed in district No last
week. = Rev. G.. f. Boynton is to preach
Sunday afternoons, for a short time, for the
First Congregational church of Brookheld.
- G. f. Woodward, Jr., has finished
his school at Grafton and returned home.
- The body of Mrs. Polly Flint, widow
of Nathaniel Flint, formerly of this town,
was brought here from Royalston, Mass,
and buried from the house of her son,
Daniel Flint, Tuesday of last week. She
was in her ninety-fourth year. - Mrs.
Judson Fits has come home from Burling
ton, where she has been for treatment for
number Of weeks. - Mrs. Woodbury. of
Bolton. Mass, is visiting her daughter,
Mrs. f. II. Cleveland. - Fannie Bry-
ant, who has been in East Calais for some
time past, has returned home. - Mrs.
f. l.. Archer has purchased a new Mason
Il Hamlin organ.
Corinth.
DONATION visit at the Corner next Friday.
- Rufus Murdoch, whose house was
burned few weeks since, intends to re-
build in the summer. - George Eaton
moves to Hartland this week. 80 Lyman
Porter returned from Canada last Saturday
with drove of young cattle. - q. A.
Jewell has been on the sick list for few
days past. - Charles Rollins lost horse
recently.
East Corinth.
THERE was a snging-school in school
house hall Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
- The following query has been made
by several, Why does not the East Corinth
Dramatic Club repeat the play, New
Years in New York;" - There was
lyceum in school-house hall Monday night.
- f. A. Stevens closed his school in
the Hodge district Saturday. - Alfred
Jackman, who is attending school at st.
Johnsbnry, was at home over Sunday.
- Mrs. Il. p. Sawyer who has been
sick for four or five weeks, is convalescent.
Orange.
THE ladies gave an antiquarian supper at
the town hall Tuesday evening for the ben
eft of the singing-school. - The au-
ditors have a notice out for meeting Thurs
day, February 18th. -. NJ. Lord has
gone to East Brookfield, Mass, to engage in
business. - Miss Edith NJ. Lord starts
to-day "wednesday for Massachusetts to
visit friends - There will be spelling
- Mr.. and Mrs. ID. r.. Houghton visited
friends in Randolph last week.
West Randolph.
THE Orange County Good Templars'
Union will be held here tomorrow CThurs-
day. afternoon and evening. Bev. j. G.
Langford, a popular speaker from New
Hampshire, will deliver the address in the
evening. - Seventy-fve or eighty Good
Templars and other friends of Miss Mary
Tilson gathered at her residence last Thurs
day and spent very social evening. Sew
eral useful presents were left
Tunbridge.
Mrs. L. f. BUzzELL is very i'll.
Eddie Cushman continues to fail in strength.
- w. ID. Lee and wife of Newark, Ohio,
came Monday with the remains of Frank s.
Lee, who died in the ALTERNATE Hot&,
New York, last Friday. - Fred futile,
son of Charles futile, was badly hurt in
the railroad accident at Hartford last week.
- Grand Army fair next week. -
Charley Maxley fell from beam in r. II.
Drew's barn and broke his collar-bone.
Williamstown.
SOME weeks ago we stated that Towns
man Lucius S. Simons last year raised three
hundred fifteen bushels of ears of corn on
two acres of land, and that he claimed the
corn-fodder alone paid the entire expense
of the production of the crop. This claim
seemed incredible to some of his fellow
farmers in town, as doubtless it may have
seemed to others outside. Mr. Simons has
therefore given your correspondent the fol-
lowing figures in proof of it, Interest on
the cost of land S2.64; breaking of the land,
50; narrowing the same, SO; phosphate,
drilled in, 50; planting and the use of the
horse-panter, seventy-five cents; narrowing
and cultivating the corn, 50: work with hoe
on the crop, $3.50; seed-corn, fifty cents;
husking and care of the fodder, $50. (The
second third fourth, sixth and last of the
foregoing estimates are larger than they
should be- Mr., Simons claims, but he allows
them to stand thus in the reckonng.)
Finally there were put on to the land eighty
two-horse loads of stable manure. AS to
just what the corn crop should be charged
for in this item there may he variety of
opinions. The land had been in grass for
six or eight years before, and had not been
MANFRED in the time. For five years to
come it will not be MANFRED again. Mr..
Simons will allow SOS to $50 TO be charged
for manure in this account. This makes
the total cost of crop, as thus estimated, not
to exceed $71.39 There were eight hundred
sixteen stocks of corn-fodder, estimated to
average twenty-five pounds each, and two
tons of scattered stalks, making total of
twelve and one-tifth tons, which Mr.. ST.
mons thinks was worth So per ton. Total,
$3.50. The corn was planted in drills
the kernels eight inches apart and the rows
three and one-half feet. An A harrow,
made by Mr., Simons specially for work on
his corn, was the implement he used largely
in its cultivation and in which he has great
faith. 1t should he said, finally that not
only is he frst-class farmer, but his land
is particularly adapted to corn. -
Messrs j. X. Lynde and j. NJ. Seaver have
sold the span of bay horses they have
together owned for some time and that
were kept and driven by Mr.. Lynde. They
were taken to Massachusetts. 80 Lucius
s. Simons tells us that the snowfall thus
far this winter has been 1881 inches -
j. M. Bass having resigned the Office of
auditor, the selectmen have appointed War
rem s. Covel as his successor. - Human